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Full memory dump with Windows Error Reporting

Windows Error Reporting is a nice tool from Microsoft. It collects required Information from an exception that happend and (if you want so) checks online if there is a solution for your issue. By default it creates a memory minidump of that process that crashed. Often a minidump is good enough to narrow down the issue, but what if it’s not enough? There’s the possibility to enable full Memory dumps when an application crashes. You can enable it with the following key:

Note that the above is a global setting (per computer). It’s also possible to set it just for 1 application. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787181(v=vs.85).aspx for more Information.